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Specs on used system

For this project I am using a spare mini tower AMD based machine

CPU	AMD K6-200
Screen	1024 x 768 Microscan 14 Inch
Hard Drive	1.2 Gig Western Digital
Network Cards	2 Generic 10/100 Mbit

System Used

The system used for this setup is called smoothwall built specifically to be run on a computer and to make the computer act as a firewall/router To see more info about smoothwall and components goto http://www.smoothwall.org/

Currently I am using stable version 1.0 p9

Current version 2.0 Final

Installing to hard disk HOW-TO

1.  Choose a hard disk you would like to use ( you don't need more then 100 MB for this so a small one will be fine )

2.  Download the bootable ISO image file from Http://www.smoothwall.org/

3.  After downloading the image file burn it to a CD which will make the CD bootable
	
4.  Place the CD of smoothwall into the CD drive and start the computer ( the computer should now boot from the CD ) if the computer fails to boot from CD you might 
    need to set that option in the bios ( refer to your motherboard manual for instructions on accessing the bios and changing boot options )
	  
5.  Follow the on screen instructions to install smoothwall and smoothwall will install.  Reboot and you have successfully installed smoothwall and turned 
    your spare computer into a working firewall/router box running linux.  If you have any trouble installing or getting smoothwall to 
    work please refer to http://www.smoothwall.org/